A Greeting for My Friends

I also completed my stamp club swap while in Montreal, using a very Tim Holtz simple technique:

Ink a bold, solid stamp with distress inks, spritz with water, and stamp onto watercolour paper.  When dry, stamp the greeting using a permanent ink.

Fall Vintage

With all my gallivanting about, I forgot to post my October vintage collage Artist Trading Card.

Ten Two Studios Holiday Image Countdown

If you like to use vintage clip art in your artwork, hop on over to Ten Two Studios and download some free images.  Each day between now and December 25 a new image will be revealed.

Please remember to share the link on Facebook, your blog, Twitter, etc.  This is one of the download terms, to share the link.

To Peak or Not to Peak?

Another thing I did in Montreal was to work on my Christmas cards.   I'm never sure whether to post Christmas cards on my blog because the recipient may see theirs here ahead of time.

What do you think?  Please leave a comment!

Greetings from Montreal

Well, not really, but I've been there and back and that is the reason for my long break from blogging.  I was visiting my sister Dianne, and we spent two weeks stamping and shopping.  What fun!

While I was there, I prepared for my demonstration day at my Stamp Club here in Vancouver.  My sister found a cool Tim Holtz technique in a 2003 Rubber Stamper magazine and together we created this sample:

This is a resist technique using manilla file folders.  You simply stamp in Versamark, heat emboss using clear powder, and paint using dye re-inkers and a water pen, allowing the colours to pool together.  Then you iron off the embossing leaving a faux bleach look.  (The file folders have a special coating on them that makes the ink pool together.)

Birdies Go to Paris

This time the birdies have teamed up with some Tim Holtz French Market stamps and have gone on a trip to Paris.

Another Bird

This time, the birds are singing for joy!